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Adobe Drops Linux Desktop Support For AIR

06-15-2011, 07:40 AM

Phoronix: Adobe Drops Linux Desktop Support For AIR

Adobe doesn't see "the year of the Linux desktop" happening, so they've decided to kill off the Linux desktop client for their AIR run-time. Adobe AIR 2.7 was recently released for creating rich Internet applications, but the Linux desktop client wasn't updated. This wasn't an oversight or delay in development, but Adobe is dropping the Linux desktop client so they can focus on mobile platforms such as Android and Apple iOS...

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I'm not sure I ever used AIR, can anyone point to something based on AIR that desktop users use?
I only care about the flash player being there for Linux, since HTML5 video is not nearly good enough, youtube's html5 player still sucks big time and I don't know why.

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maybe html5 player sucks so much, because there is this crappy flash blob from adobe for linux. I boykott it, one alternative for youtube is minitube a free gpl desktop-flash-player.

Yes I hope in the eyes of adobe Linux will never be ready for (commercial) Desktop.

Whats the point to make windows out of linux. Why then not using windows.

Keep away your stupid binary blobs from linux.

if they would offer some gpl stuff, be my guest. for pdf you dont need the adobe crap just use the free tools like evience. And for flash there are alternativs too, but I agree that works only for standard desktop stuff (not if you want to use special software or hardcore gaming) the biggest problem right now is the shit flashblob.

But there is also an alterntive availible here ubuntu and co fail to get them easy installable. I mean Lightspark, they should just make that the default. But they piss on free software and likes that proprietary unstable blobs.